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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
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Prosperity is no just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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A healer of others, himself diseased.
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. Thy words, said he, Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
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Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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A soldier told Pelopidas, We are fallen among the enemies. Said he, How are we fallen among them more than they among us?
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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